[UPDATED TUESDAY 12th JUNE]
Please see below for a list of Old Blues signed up for this year's Old Blues Day. This will be posted on the CHA website shortly, also sorted by House and by Decade.
Places for lunch are getting very tight so if you are planning to have lunch in Dining Hall, please let us know ASAP as we will allocate these on a first come, first served basis.
We do have a few little gremlins in the system, so if you have signed up and your name's not on this list, don't panic, just drop us an email and we can confirm that your attendance is recorded on our database. Also, don't be backward in coming forward if you spot an error in any of your details, or would like us to use another name for you.
Thanks,
Zoe manager@chassociation.org

The missing generation seems to be Horsham leavers of the mid 60's.
Mind you, I have just discovered the christian name of one of my house contemporaries and a B & W photo of him marching in on lunch parade. The question now is whether we will recognise each other 43 years on.

jhopgood wrote:The missing generation seems to be Horsham leavers of the mid 60's.

Agreed; of perhaps 130 who were in Col A at the same time as me perhaps 3 are attending; not a good percentage. AFAIK there is only one other OB of my generation from Col A on this forum and he a) is abroad b) has never posted and c) seems uninterested in contact with other OBs.

I do wonder if OBs in general are actually hearing about these events if the school has lost touch and they haven't found this site. I cannot imagine that CHA is messaging all OBs on Friends Reunited.

sejintenej wrote:I do wonder if OBs in general are actually hearing about these events if the school has lost touch and they haven't found this site. I cannot imagine that CHA is messaging all OBs on Friends Reunited.

I found out about this forum after Julian contacted all the OBs on Friends Reunited, so there's an indirect link.

I contacted all the Hertford OBs on Friends Reunited too, acouple of years ago now.

I think you do remember your old housemates more, and sometimes older people from other houses. I rememeber Katharine's name , though I probably woyuldn't recognise her from a photo, whereas I doubt Kerren remembers me although we were in the same house. I did nothing to warrant attention.

"If a man speaks, and there isn't a woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

sejintenej wrote:I do wonder if OBs in general are actually hearing about these events if the school has lost touch and they haven't found this site. I cannot imagine that CHA is messaging all OBs on Friends Reunited.

I found out about this forum after Julian contacted all the OBs on Friends Reunited, so there's an indirect link.

We did work our way through the whole CH (Horsham) Friends Reunited lists, individually contacting each person to encourage to come and have a look.
Also, "The Old Blue" and "Housey!" go out to everyone on the database, which in theory is all Old Blues etc., but I'm sure there are many which haven't updated their contact details etc. over the years.

The important thing is always that we all spread the word to all OBs we know, and encourage them. The more ways to know about these events the better.

There's the RSS feeds from the CHA website which I find very useful for keeping up-to-date with new news.

Julian Taylor-Gadd
Leigh Hunt 1985-1992
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